Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
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I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
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If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
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I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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I ultimately do still feel like an outsider, and I do feel, actually, I'm more in the world of music because of how much I participate with musicians - in all aspects, not just clothes.
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If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
